User:Tadpole256



Name: Anthony McCloskey

Location: Philadelphia,PA, US

Focus: Breaking news, politics, science, technology

Roles: Reporter-at-Large on enwiki;

Email: tadpole256@gmail.com

Homepage: http://www.quixoticjourney.com http://www.armysailor.com

Wikipedia Page: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Tadpole256

'''Journalism need not be uncompelling. When writing / editing, let common sense be your guide.'''

My published articles

 * 1) Sixteen killed in Marrakech bomb blast
 * 2) Mother of slain Army Ranger calls for removal of General McChrystal from committee
 * 3) Kentucky lawmaker in critical condition after fight in high school cafeteria
 * 4) French police arrest two women wearing veils after burqa ban goes into effect
 * 5) Facebook to share the technology 'behind its servers'
 * 6) U.S. budget crisis will cause personal budget crisis for U.S. troops
 * 7) Camp Pendleton, California: helicopter crash kills two US marines

Butchered Articles

 * 1) Apple collecting location data from iPhone, iPad <-- Article butchered by amateur editing. Full version is available in the History, or at http://www.quixoticjourney.com/journal/2011/4/23/apple-quietly-collecting-location-data-from-iphone-ipad.html/

Articles I've contributed to

 * 1) Egyptian politician ElBaradei says ousted President Mubarak must stand trial
 * 2) Deadly tornadoes rip through southern US, killing close to 300
 * 3) Yao JiaXin, murderer of road traffic incident casualty, sentenced
 * 4) France, Italy, UK sending military advisers to Libya; photojournalists killed in Misrata
 * 5) Standard & Poor's lowers the U.S. credit outlook to 'negative' Co-wrote Article with Matisse
 * 6) Scientists create schizophrenic brain cells
 * 7) A380 collides with regional jet at JFK airport
 * 8) Gbagbo detained by opposition forces and taken to meet Ouattara in Ivory Coast hotel
 * 9) British seaman appears in court, charged with murder after shooting on nuclear submarine
 * 10) 38 killed in attack on Afghan bank
 * 11) Bailout signals Lisbon's capitulation to financial markets
 * 12) Dingoes attack toddler on Fraser Island
 * 13) Pakistani Taliban threaten revenge attack after bin Laden death; CIA says retaliation is likely
 * 14) News International offers £3 million phone-hacking settlement to family of murder victim
 * 15) Cassini spacecraft captures large storm on Saturn

Blog Posts About Wikinews
'''Wikinews has a lot of unrealized potential... Here is my take.''' The unrealized potential of Wikinews

Offsite Articles of Interest

 * Equalism not Feminism
 * The PATRIOT Act must die (OpEd)